The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-31
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

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BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT
THE Rev. Edward Everett Hale's congregation
| will soon begin erecting new church ediice.
| GENERAL A W. GREEDY, of arctic explora-
| ton fame has purchased home and settled
down in Newburyport. Mass
RINGS on the fingers of gentlemen seen
| more often this season than for many years
| past, and the liking for them is plainly shown.
POSTMASTER JUDD, of Chicago is a power in
| Episcopal Church councils we'll politics and
| is said to be about the best posted man on
| ecclesiastical law in this country.
| VERY little credence is given in Washington
| to the report that the President intends to ap-
point the widow of General Hancock to the
Washington postofice vacancy. Where the
rumor originated is not known.
WHEN B. f. Laner, of Atlanta. was arrested
for murder, the old clock in his house stopped
short A night two ago it started again. and
a few minutes later a dispatch was received an
nouacing Laniers acquittal Believe it not
you like.
Mr.. RICHARD T. BOOTH, tho temperance advo-
cate, has returned to Boston from a seven years
tour around tho world. In the of his
labors he has induced more than a million per-
sons to sign the pledge. He is about to set out
for another foreign campaign.
JEFFERSON DAVIS and Thomas L. Clineman,
of North Carolina, are the.only ex Senators now
living of all the Southern members of that body
Who in July, 1861, expelled from the
United States Senate for having left their seats
aud gone over to the Confederacy.
MAJoR-GENERAL SIEMENs, who died on the
1st of July in Berlin, had introduced
many important improvements INTO the mate
rial of the German artillery. It was mainly
owing to his influence that Krupp guns instead
OF the English were adopted In the German
navy
Mr.. GARLAND, whom the President still keeps
in the attorney -generalship. doesn't dress we'll
because he doesn't like good clothes; didn't go
his sons wedding because he doesn't like we'd
Gings; wouldn't 60 to the Presidents funeral
should he die-because he doesn't like funerals
and, in fact, doesn't seem to like anything much
except Hominy Hill, draw poker and Pan. electric
doodle"
HELMBoLD, the once famous patent-medicine
plunger, is living on Chelsea avenue, Long
Branch. in a modest cottage which is perhaps all
that is left of his millions. Mrs. Helmbod Mrs
Pell, sster-in- law, and a son share his retire
ment He is to-day a quiet. somewhat eccentric
man, harmless but regretful and sometimes
given to a brooding over the past, which is Ger
tainly not surprising.
THE Chicago Interior calls attention to the
fact that cases of insanity have increased in
Iowa during the last few years with marked
rapidly, and attributes this increase mainly to
foreign immigration-"th influx of cranks.
mendicants and political agitators, which
country so cheerfully welcomes from the
archical and revolutionary classes of Europe.
The insanity of these men manfests itself in
antagonism to every principle vital to our re-
publican government and to our political insti-
tutions as these were framed and committed to
us by our fathers" 1t thinks that Congress
should quarantine against this importation of
diseased blood and brains just promptly it
does against cholera and yellow fever"
LORD TENNYsoN is not gifted with a mem
r. - A. l.
tanned ore day at dinner by a Mr.. Oscar Brown
ing, a wealthy gentleman we'll known in London
society, and not at all related to Browning, the
poet few days after Mr. Browning met Lord
Tennyson at reception and saluted him
daily, but the poet looked at him vaguely and
did not recognize him. do you not remember,
Lord Tennyson? am Browning" said his quon-
dam host .Oh, no you not" answered Ten
nyson, placdly Il know Robert Browning in
tmately, and you cannot persuade me that you
are he" So off he went, leaving his unfortunate
entertainer in decidedly unpleasant predca-
ment.
A tablet has been placed in the chapel of st.
Faith, Westminster Abbey. in memory of Bish-
CD McIlvaine and of the shelter given there to his
remains by Dean Stanley while on his way
from Italy to Ohio. 1t bears the following in
scription: "In this chapel, during Easter week
of 1873, by request of the dean. Arthur Pen
rhyn Stanley, rested the remains of the Right
l.. (Oxon.) LII. d. tCam. J, Bishop of Ohio u.
S. A, on their way from Florence, whore he
died to their interment in his own diocese.
This tablet commentaries an honor paid pre-
late widely respected and deeply beloved, whose
life and work helped to draw together England
and America in one communion of faith and
love-"
Mr.. GEORGE FARNELL, stenographer, of Prov
idence has just accomplished the difficult task
of writing upward of q, 600 words on piece of
paper the exact size of postal card. The speci
men includes the Journals report of the Burn
side memorial ceremonies, including formation
of line route of march, decorations GRAFTON, ad-
dresses &c. the whole of which occupied about
writing is perhaps the greatest curiosity OF its
kind and was written with an ordinary steel pen
on ordinary paper. and with the naked eye. 1t
is written in very simple style of the short hand.
known as the Isaac Pitman photography. and it
yyonld take an ordinary speaker three aud n half
This one piece of paper contains; or, to make
other comparison. it is equal TO four average
Sunday sermons
waited for token meath the window of my love
4 note, flash of handkerchief. ribbon, glove
She had met me in the cleaning and promised
sign
That she again would grant her presence divine
1t seemed to me that counting the usual plan
near;
her head;
I saw had my token, and forthwith away fed.
Poet of the Waste basket.